Grinnan v. Southern Railway Co.

In view of plaintiff’s evidence tending to show that the fire had burned over a half acre of plaintiff’s land when her caretaker arrived, “and was bounding up pretty high,” and yet it had not burned through the three feet of thick, high grass and weeds between the freshly burned fusee and the “chat” at the end of the railroad crossties, and the burned area was very narrow at the fusee, the defendant contends the evidence will not support the conclusion the fire originated at the freshly burned fusee; that there was evidence that fusees which had not burned were found along the track and the…